There were plenty of stations on the other night. I heard a beacon on 160m,didn`t even know they existed on that band. "HV8E",I was told that`s a fishing beacon. I hear one on 10.123 often,from South America. True,the band is really too small to have beacons. The U.S. already has a "beacon" on 30m,it`s called,WWV!